Windows on a MacTel *OFFICIAL* SOLUTION POSTED!

[NFS4]

Check!!!! And you live in the US for goodness sake

 

[ForumMaster]

sweet man! my next comp is gonna be an iMac Intel machine with xp and mac os x! bes of both worlds! let's see some benchmarks tho!

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
sweet man! my next comp is gonna be an iMac Intel machine with xp and mac os x! bes of both worlds! let's see some benchmarks tho!

Oh they are coming

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Now we just need to get OSX working on a normal PC.

what do you mean by normal? my friend runs OSX on a pc he built.

 

[bigrash]

that's crazy! maybe i should try this on my mac mini

 

[GTaudiophile]

Shens?

What I really want to see is OSX x86 installed on a DELL. Or dual-boot. WinXP on MacTel machine is meh. Good for them for trying tho.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Shens?

What I really want to see is OSX x86 installed on a DELL. Or dual-boot. WinXP on MacTel machine is meh. Good for them for trying tho.

You can install osx on any x86 computer (for the most part) It just isn't in any way legal, and in the foreseeable future, it won't be legal. (ever)

 

[ribbon13]

"7. XP on x86? What, you mean somebody actually got XP running on an x86 processor! Incredible, what next..."

:laugh:

 

[cerebusPu]

it appears he got it to dual boot but the video, sound, and stuff doesnt have the right drivers. now they just need to write drivers for them in windows.

 

[toekramp]

TTT

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
"7. XP on x86? What, you mean somebody actually got XP running on an x86 processor! Incredible, what next..."

:laugh:

eh, over coming EFI is pretty impressive

 

[coomar]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
oh the irony...releasing the video in quicktime:laugh:

that amused me as well

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: ribbon13
"7. XP on x86? What, you mean somebody actually got XP running on an x86 processor! Incredible, what next..."

:laugh:

eh, over coming EFI is pretty impressive

Overcoming? It's the same damn thing... Nothing EFI offers is anything other than logical progression. And if he 'overcame' it why can't it be a created NTFS partition? Premade FAT is weak sauce.
Oh... and this honestly scares me

"Ideally, the EFI development model will move the concept of hardware drivers from the operating system back into the lowest level of the PC structure: the hardware itself. Traditionally, when a PC is first powered up, initial device initialization is performed by the BIOS in the PC's default environment ? real mode ? which dates back to the original IBM PC. The BIOS then turns control over to the operating system while still in real mode. Modern protected mode operating systems, however, cannot use the real mode functions provided by the BIOS. The operating system must therefore use its own protected mode drivers for each piece of hardware it wishes to use. With the EFI model, however, manufacturers will be free to write their own OS-independent hardware drivers which can be included within the device itself and can be directly used by modern operating systems. Such EFI drivers could also be used, for example, to allow the PC to connect to the Internet and retrieve updated drivers even before an OS is installed." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface

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The only amazing thing about this is Andrew Ritz actually got what he deserves.